00:00I'm afraid to go to the battlefield. I'm afraid to die.
00:02I would really like to have a future here.
00:06My dreams and goals have not changed.
00:08I really believe that we can rebuild our country.
00:15My name is Oleksandr Lerchuk.
00:17I'm Angelina Kovtun.
00:18My name is Elbertan.
00:19I'm Sofia.
00:20Before the war, I worked as a photographer and was developing my own clothing brand.
00:25I love it in the city of Ismail in the Odessa region.
00:29I am currently an active service member of the Orange Force of Ukraine.
00:33I'm 26 years old.
00:35I'm Korean Tatar and I live in the south of Ukraine, East Mykolaiv.
00:39I'm a student in New York University.
00:41I'm 24, I live in Kyiv.
00:43I work in tech as a product manager, but also I study cinematography.
00:47I'm 18.
00:48I come from Ternodville.
00:50I'm a student in Kyiv.
00:56Everything changed in the first day of the work.
00:58You stop planning years ahead, you plan days ahead, sometimes hours.
01:02Daily life in work zone is checking your phone first thing in the morning to see if everyone
01:07you love is still alive.
01:09My brother, he fought for Mariupol from the first day.
01:11He is 40 now.
01:12He is in prison.
01:13I am not sure if he is still alive.
01:16And now I take care of his son.
01:19He is the love of my life.
01:20He is my son.
01:21I want to work as a human rights activist and human rights advocate for Korean Tatar people.
01:27Because my brother is in Siberia.
01:29My grandmother, 65 years ago, she was also in Siberia.
01:33It's like a circle.
01:34I want to break this circle for us.
01:36I imagined myself as a lawyer in Ukraine, get a great degree in a great university, maybe
01:43in Odessa.
01:44But now it's not that safe.
01:47Now I think more about becoming an international lawyer.
01:52It is also linked to me wanting to advocate more for the situation in Ukraine, for Russia's
02:01crimes against Ukraine.
02:02I hope that my future will be connected with cinema.
02:07I'd like to find a story that will be worth talking about.
02:11All these fears, all these hard times, they create these unique experiences and we can produce
02:18a really great art.
02:19I'm 24 now.
02:20Mobilization age in Ukraine is 25.
02:23I'm afraid to go to the battlefield.
02:24I'm afraid to die.
02:26It's scary.
02:27Most of my main life goals will be released.
02:29Successful and full operation closing brands, meeting a woman with who I plan to build a
02:35family and starting to build my own home.
02:38My dreams and goals have not changed because of the war.
02:42It is precisely my dreams and goals that motivated me, giving me the energy and the way to keep
02:49moving forward.
02:53I really hope that Russia's impact won't be as significant on Ukraine as it is now.
03:01I really love my country and I would really like to be here and work here and have a future
03:08here.
03:08Ukrainians are a very optimistic people and we have always believed and will continue to believe it.
03:14That's only a bright future where it's used.
03:17We sincerely hope that within a year the war will be over.
03:21I don't think that the war will be over in one year, but in 10 years I hope.
03:27Maybe it's my dream that the war is over and we have Ukraine that is smaller version of Ukraine.
03:35It doesn't seem very possible to reclaim our territory, all the territory, but we have much more unite society.
03:43When the war started, it was like a big explosion of empathy.
03:49People started to care about each other.
03:52I hope that this empathy will stay with us.
03:55I really believe that we can rebuild our country, especially our younger generation.
04:00But not only buildings, also institutions and our hope in the future.
04:04We are not waiting for something.
04:06We want to live now.
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